Lean on Me

"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Hawking said. "Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."

This sort of energy is permeating the city right now, or maybe its the sticky June heat? Last night I walked home through Washington Sq. Park at midnight and encountered an impromptu concert of queers and hippies and souls and blondes and homeless and tourists and musicians and bike messengers. "Lean on Me" started and it was so beautiful it felt like the end of the world. The calm before the storm. This bliss that screams the apocalypse.